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Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Pallbearer at The Echoplex on 5/18

Pallbearer dropped a MASSIVE 3rd doom metal album this past March and they are showing why it’s perfect timing for Metal to make a comeback- right here, right now. With the hard rock resurgence the past couple years, the endless stream of pop punk and garage rock proliferating out of

Thurston Moore Band

Thurston Moore: Genre Be Damned When You’re An Icon

Before I go into what happened when Thurston Moore graced the Teragram Ballroom’s stage on Saturday May 12th, I need to paint the picture of what happened immediately after. Smoking a cigarette and leaning against a neighboring liquor mart, I saw an old college friend of mine, a bit of

Ho99o9 Halloween at The Roxy

Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Ho99o9 at The Echo on Friday 5/19

If we cover even just one more Ho99o9 live show in the pages of Janky Smooth, our readers might start to think that we are nothing but biased groupies.  But we don’t care about that as much as being overly redundant since this publication makes no bones about the fact

Coachella Undercover by Josh Peters

The Secret Journal Of A Pizza Spy at Coachella 2017

Thursday Thoughts On The Night Before Weekend 2 of Coachella 2017 Starts The drive to Indio from LAX was supposed to take three hours & forty seven minutes, but it would be a lot longer than that before we would be out of the car and setting up our tent.

Take This: Win 2 Tickets To See the mighty FISHBONE at The Echoplex

It is the position of Janky Smooth that Fishbone is the greatest live band of the past 3 decades.  In any measurable way, Fishbone plays, connects with their audience, records their material and of most importance recently, ages better than any band that typically has people slam dancing to their

The Obsessed in the 80's

Weedeater and The Obsessed at The Regent: Blaze It Up, Fool

Doom metal is on such a comeback that I might have to become a pothead again. Until a few months ago, I had the hunch that thrash was going to have a second coming and be the biggest rage in underground metal, but at a time when Saint Vitus and

Ho99o9- United States of Horror

Børn in the U.S.H.-United States of Horror

Last night in a back yard on Echo Park Ave, there was a call to arms.  Last night, Jean Lebrun and Eaddy Lawrz aka HO99O9 launched a movement and moved forward in spreading the spores of the United States of Horror.  Oh, you thought it was just music? The new

Cool Tite party

Bullies or Buddies: Los Angeles Music Blogs and the Scenes They Cover

A solid three years into the game, COOL TITE bring it fresher and bigger than ever. Crystal, Mat, and Sergio are all about keeping it D.I.Y. and Janky Smooth wants to acknowledge and participate in how local music blogs in LA, like CT, contribute to and enrich the community, stay

Larry and His Flask at The Echo

Folk Sensibilities w/ Larry and His Flask & Flatfoot 56 at The Echo

Larry and His Flask recently embarked on a tour with Chicago natives Flatfoot 56.  While both bands differ stylistically, the light-hearted attitudes and instrumental diversity of both bands have served as key components in their compatibility. This is one of those line-ups where you aren’t sure who should be headlining

Shawn and Mark Stern

Punk Rock Bowling Transforms BYO Boys Into Wisdom Brigade

This past Monday, April 24th I interviewed members of an iconic, first wave California skate punk band, the owners of a record label and the brain trust of a popular annual cultural event that completely consumes every hotel room, a dozen bars and music venues and every beer coozy in Downtown

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